68 episodes · first aired 2013-01-07
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 | 01 | Lucius 2013-01-07 | One minute, Lucius sounds like a '60s girl group; the next might conjure images of Emmylou Harris. | 2013-01-07 | 0.0 |
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Black Prairie 2013-01-14 |
With members of The Decemberists, the band lends a snappy, lilting quality to songs of alienation. |
| 2013-01-14 |
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 | 03 | Of Montreal 2013-01-28 | Frontman Kevin Barnes uses the intimacy of the NPR Music offices to try out some quiet new material. | 2013-01-28 | 0.0 |
 | 04 | Cantus 2013-02-04 | The a cappella ensemble sings widely divergent songs from American, European and Sufi traditions. | 2013-02-04 | 0.0 |
 | 05 | The xx 2013-02-11 | In The xx's songs, all the calm chilliness in the world can't quite contain an exposed heart. | 2013-02-11 | 0.0 |
 | 06 | Night Beds 2013-02-18 | Winston Yellen's arresting voice propels a lighthearted but deeply affecting set at the NPR office. | 2013-02-18 | 0.0 |
 | 07 | Mary Halvorson Quintet 2013-02-25 | The guitarist brings a decidedly non-standard approach to jazz's standard practices. | 2013-02-25 | 0.0 |
 | 08 | The Lone Bellow 2013-03-04 | The fast-rising Brooklyn trio sings beautiful, heartfelt, impeccably harmonized folk-pop songs. | 2013-03-04 | 0.0 |
 | 09 | Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill 2013-03-11 | Watch one of the best fiddlers on the planet and a subtle guitar master work their magic. | 2013-03-11 | 0.0 |
 | 10 | Efterklang 2013-04-08 | The Danish band ransacks the NPR Music offices looking for sound-making material and new ideas. | 2013-04-08 | 0.0 |
 | 11 | Yo La Tengo 2013-04-15 | To coincide with the release of the band's 13th album, Fade, Yo La Tengo performs an acoustic set. | 2013-04-15 | 0.0 |
 | 12 | Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu 2013-04-22 | The duo's quietly energetic performance hangs over the the NPR Music offices like a soft mist. | 2013-04-22 | 0.0 |
 | 13 | Father Figures 2013-04-29 | Zany, brainy and danceable, these guys' music mixes rock and jazz like King Crimson at its fiercest. | 2013-04-29 | 0.0 |
 | 14 | Nicola Benedetti 2013-05-06 | Watch the violinist spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet, soulful tendrils of sound. | 2013-05-06 | 0.0 |
 | 15 | Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale 2013-05-13 | The veteran country players mix corny humor, musical merrymaking and timeless vocal harmonies. | 2013-05-13 | 0.0 |
 | 16 | Mohammad Reza Shajarian 2013-05-20 | The 73-year-old Iranian icon unleashes torrents of swooping, soaring sound that elicit goosebumps. | 2013-05-20 | 0.0 |
 | 17 | Imani Winds 2013-05-29 | Imani Winds' members shrink Igor Stravinsky down to size in a quintet take on The Rite of Spring. | 2013-05-29 | 0.0 |
 | 18 | OK Go 2013-06-03 | OK Go helps us transport the Tiny Desk from NPR Music's old headquarters to our new facility. | 2013-06-03 | 0.0 |
 | 19 | The National 2013-06-10 | Watch the band perform acoustic arrangements of four songs from its new album, Trouble Will Find Me. | 2013-06-10 | 0.0 |
 | 20 | NO BS! Brass Band 2013-06-15 | An 11-piece brass band turns up the funk and flies the flag high for its native Richmond, Va. | 2013-06-15 | 0.0 |
 | 21 | Billy Bragg 2013-06-17 | One of the world's finest folksingers channels the spirit of Woody Guthrie at the NPR Music offices. | 2013-06-17 | 0.0 |
 | 22 | Patty Griffin 2013-06-24 | Watch the singer-songwriter and her band perform three songs from her fine new album, American Kid. | 2013-06-24 | 0.0 |
 | 23 | Maya Beiser 2013-06-29 | A brilliant cellist with a stunning command of her instrument, Beiser performs at the NPR offices. | 2013-06-29 | 0.0 |
 | 24 | Laura Mvula 2013-07-01 | The U.K. singer performs some of her most intimate material in a short set at the NPR Music offices. | 2013-07-01 | 0.0 |
 | 25 | Cheick Hamala Diabate 2013-07-06 | The Malian musician and his band craft melodies and rhythms that cut across age and ethnicity. | 2013-07-06 | 0.0 |
 | 26 | Skinny Lister 2013-07-08 | The rowdy English folk-punk band brings its barely controlled mayhem to the NPR Music offices. | 2013-07-08 | 0.0 |
 | 27 | Frank Turner 2013-07-13 | Two men with unplugged instruments convey the bawdy rowdiness of a full band. | 2013-07-13 | 0.0 |
 | 28 | Alice Russell 2013-07-15 | When the British singer performs, her emotionally fiery music just gets hotter and grittier. | 2013-07-15 | 0.0 |
 | 29 | Cheyenne Mize 2013-07-20 | The singer, instrumentalist and music therapist plays slinky, forceful songs at NPR Music. | 2013-07-20 | 0.0 |
 | 30 | Guards 2013-07-22 | Hear three sturdy pop songs from In Guards We Trust, performed live at the NPR Music offices. | 2013-07-22 | 0.0 |
 | 31 | Time For Three 2013-07-27 | Hear the "classically trained garage band" perform with staggering technique and contagious energy. | 2013-07-27 | 0.0 |
 | 32 | Dana Falconberry 2013-07-29 | Watch Falconberry and five bandmates perform three delicate songs from her recent album Leelanau. | 2013-07-29 | 0.0 |
 | 33 | Keaton Henson 2013-08-03 | Henson's voice is so fragile and hushed, if you were 10 feet away from him you'd barely hear a peep. | 2013-08-03 | 0.0 |
 | 34 | Jim Guthrie 2013-08-10 | Guthrie and his band drove 18 hours round-trip from Ontario to perform three songs for NPR Music. | 2013-08-10 | 0.0 |
 | 35 | Alpine 2013-08-12 | The Australian sextet crafts busily impeccable, harmony-intensive pop music with a danceable sway. | 2013-08-12 | 0.0 |
 | 36 | Mother Falcon 2013-08-17 | The 17-member chamber-rock collective uses its size in the service of great, snappy, stirring songs. | 2013-08-17 | 0.0 |
 | 37 | The Front Bottoms 2013-08-19 | The community that's formed around The Front Bottoms speaks to the band's passion and compassion. | 2013-08-19 | 0.0 |
 | 38 | Buika 2013-08-26 | Concha Buika's voice comes from Africa and the past. Watch her perform in the NPR Music offices. | 2013-08-26 | 0.0 |
 | 39 | Steve Gunn 2013-08-31 | Watch Gunn's trio perform a set of hypnotic long-form jams that are perfect for taking it easy. | 2013-08-31 | 0.0 |
 | 40 | Baths 2013-09-04 | Watch Baths' Will Wiesenfeld perform mysterious, textured electronic music in the NPR offices. | 2013-09-04 | 0.0 |
 | 41 | Bombino 2013-09-07 | For our 300th Tiny Desk Concert, we showcase a Tuareg guitarist's fierce, hypnotic, alluring jams. | 2013-09-07 | 0.0 |
 | 42 | The 1975 2013-09-10 | Performing solo, singer Matthew Healy doesn't hesitate to transform both his songs and himself. | 2013-09-10 | 0.0 |
 | 43 | Arturo O'Farrill 2013-09-14 | With an eye on both the past and the future, O'Farrill has jazz and Afro-Cuban music in his DNA. | 2013-09-14 | 0.0 |
 | 44 | Shovels & Rope 2013-09-16 | The husband-and-wife duo mixes rowdy folk-rock and rootsy ballads, with the help of a canine friend. | 2013-09-16 | 0.0 |
 | 45 | The Cristina Pato Trio 2013-09-21 | A Galician bagpiper and her trio take Celtic sounds in an entirely wild and wonderful direction. | 2013-09-21 | 0.0 |
 | 46 | Hem 2013-09-28 | Hem makes a homey, fireside kind of music, with songs that feel as if they've always been there. | 2013-09-28 | 0.0 |
 | 47 | Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi 2013-09-30 | The Zimbabwean legend performs songs from the mournful but celebratory Sarawoga for NPR Music. | 2013-09-30 | 0.0 |
 | 48 | Lawrence Brownlee 2013-10-05 | The operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Rossini, circles back to his roots as a singer of spirituals. | 2013-10-05 | 0.0 |
 | 49 | Superchunk 2013-10-07 | Watch the venerable band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way. | 2013-10-07 | 0.0 |
 | 50 | Valerie June 2013-10-12 | Short of seeing her live and in person, this is the best way to encounter June's heartfelt sound. | 2013-10-12 | 0.0 |
 | 51 | Okkervil River 2013-10-15 | The band performs three songs from a record inspired by the childhood of singer Will Sheff. | 2013-10-15 | 0.0 |
 | 52 | Matt Ulery's Loom 2013-10-19 | The bassist composes beautiful, unpretentious music for an unusual jazz band with accordion. | 2013-10-19 | 0.0 |
 | 53 | Daughter 2013-10-21 | Pretty and melancholy, the Londoners' music conjures a perfect mix of gloom, desire and hostility. | 2013-10-21 | 0.0 |
 | 54 | Typhoon 2013-10-26 | The dozen members of this Portland, Ore. band crammed behind the Tiny Desk for a transcendent set. | 2013-10-26 | 0.0 |
 | 55 | San Fermin 2013-10-28 | The orchestral folk-pop band's little song-worlds burst with ambition, talent and extreme joy. | 2013-10-28 | 0.0 |
 | 56 | Neko Case 2013-10-31 | Watch a Halloween Tiny Desk Concert in which Case performs with Kelly Hogan and Eric Bachmann. | 2013-10-31 | 0.0 |
 | 57 | Ashley Monroe 2013-11-03 | This three-song set in the NPR Music offices captures a nice cross-section of Monroe's appeal. | 2013-11-03 | 0.0 |
 | 58 | Gary Burton 2013-11-09 | The jazz vibraphone pioneer is 70 now, but that hasn't slowed his flying four-mallet technique. | 2013-11-09 | 0.0 |
 | 59 | Debashish Bhattacharya 2013-11-12 | Bhattacharya draws on North Indian classical music, but blues also pours out of his stunning work. | 2013-11-12 | 0.0 |
 | 60 | John Legend 2013-11-16 | The soul singer retains the easygoing grace of a performer fit for any stage — even a tiny one. | 2013-11-16 | 0.0 |
 | 61 | Waxahatchee 2013-11-23 | This is Katie Crutchfield as Waxahatchee, playing intimate music for an intimate setting. | 2013-11-23 | 0.0 |
 | 62 | Kronos Quartet 2013-11-25 | The intrepid champions of new music bring a lullaby, rare blues and a work by Bryce Dessner to NPR. | 2013-11-25 | 0.0 |
 | 63 | The Dismemberment Plan 2013-12-02 | The band exudes playfulness and wry charm throughout these three songs from Uncanney Valley. | 2013-12-02 | 0.0 |
 | 64 | Sarah Jarosz 2013-12-07 | Jarosz and her small backing band craft a careful mix of technical proficiency and poppy warmth. | 2013-12-07 | 0.0 |
 | 65 | Dessa 2013-12-09 | The whip-smart rapper, singer, poet and songwriter performs three tracks from Parts of Speech. | 2013-12-09 | 0.0 |
 | 66 | Christine Salem 2013-12-14 | Salem sings work songs and chants from the maloya tradition on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean. | 2013-12-14 | 0.0 |
 | 67 | La Santa Cecilia 2013-12-16 | The video here provides just a hint of the L.A. band's dynamic live shows, albeit a spectacular one. | 2013-12-16 | 0.0 |
 | 68 | Preservation Hall Jazz Band 2013-12-21 | The hot and historic New Orleans band brings a tuba-wielding Santa and some original holiday cheer. | 2013-12-21 | 0.0 |
